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<p><span class='deck'>With astonishing tenacity, the people of the rich river-mouth region of the Mississippi have remained what and where they are through two and a half centuries</span></p>
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<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Just a few decades more, or so we are told, and the process of the homogenization of America will have been completed. All regional personalities will have been sanitized out of existence, and the national culture will be a bland, predictable, and packaged product. Probably this is not a prospect we need immediately contemplate. This is a hell of a big country, as the poet Charles Olson said, and it will take considerably more time and enterprise before it can be so reduced.<div class="field field-type-text field-field-featured">
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<p><a href="http://www.americanheritage.com/content/barataria" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.americanheritage.com/content/barataria#commentsBaratariaCultureGrand IsleGrand TerreGulf of MexicoLouisianaPiratesThu, 20 Jan 2011 17:32:40 +0000Frederick Turner54165 at http://www.americanheritage.com